Bright, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source enabled by nonlinear pulse self-compression in an antiresonant hollow-core fibre

被引：41

作者：

Gebhardt, M. ^{[1
,2
]}

Heuermann, T. ^{[1
,2
]}

Klas, R. ^{[1
,2
]}

Liu, C. ^{[1
,2
]}

Kirsche, A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Lenski, M. ^{[1
]}

Wang, Z. ^{[1
]}

Gaida, C. ^{[1
,5
]}

Antonio-Lopez, J. E. ^{[3
]}

Schulzgen, A. ^{[3
]}

Amezcua-Correa, R. ^{[3
]}

Rothhardt, J. ^{[1
,2
,4
]}

Limpert, J. ^{[1
,2
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Friedrich Schiller Univ Jena, Abbe Ctr Photon, Inst Appl Phys, Albert Einstein Str 15, D-07745 Jena, Germany

[2] Helmholtz Inst Jena, Frobelstieg 3, D-07743 Jena, Germany

[3] Univ Cent Florida, Coll Opt & Photon, CREOL, Orlando, FL 32816 USA

[4] Fraunhofer Inst Appl Opt & Precis Engn, Albert Einstein Str 7, D-07745 Jena, Germany

[5] Act Fiber Syst GmbH, Ernst Ruska Ring 17, D-07745 Jena, Germany

来源：

LIGHT-SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS | 2021年 / 10卷 / 01期

基金：

欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION; MU-M OPCPA; CYCLE PULSES; GAS-FLOW; DYNAMICS; OPTICS; POWER;

D O I：

10.1038/s41377-021-00477-x

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

Bright, coherent soft X-ray radiation is essential to a variety of applications in fundamental research and life sciences. To date, a high photon flux in this spectral region can only be delivered by synchrotrons, free-electron lasers or high-order harmonic generation sources, which are driven by kHz-class repetition rate lasers with very high peak powers. Here, we establish a novel route toward powerful and easy-to-use SXR sources by presenting a compact experiment in which nonlinear pulse self-compression to the few-cycle regime is combined with phase-matched high-order harmonic generation in a single, helium-filled antiresonant hollow-core fibre. This enables the first 100 kHz-class repetition rate, table-top soft X-ray source that delivers an application-relevant flux of 2.8 x 10(6) photon s(-1) eV(-1) around 300 eV. The fibre integration of temporal pulse self-compression (leading to the formation of the necessary strong-field waveforms) and pressure-controlled phase matching will allow compact, high-repetition-rate laser technology, including commercially available systems, to drive simple and cost-effective, coherent high-flux soft X-ray sources.

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